Thousands Crowd Garden To Hear Speech by Moon

An overflow crowd filled Madison Square Garden last night and the police said thousands were turned away from the 20,000‐seat amphitheatre as the Rev. Sun Myung Moon appeared in the culmination of his huge promotion campaign. Mr. Moon's address in the Grand Ballroom.

The audience, which filled the ballroom, numbered 1,600 as cording to Moon spokesmen who put the cost at a little more than $20 a plate.

“We invited the top people it the community, in business politics, religion and the milita ry,” said Michael Brownlee assistant to Colonel Pak.

Many in the audience said they had attended out of curisity and were puzzled about why they had been invited, Some left before the end of the five‐hour program, but after Mr. Moon's address. A substan. tial number were members of the Unification Church, some whom wore host or hostess ribbons. They applauded vigorous ly at times during Mr. Moon's talk.

To illustrate that “God created woman for the sake of man” and “man for the sake of wo. man,” the evangelist strutted on the ballroom stage, smiling and lifting apart his lapels to caricature his comment that “all womcii really want to make themselves beautiful for the delight of man.”

Early in his talk, five women from the International Workers Party interrupted, two of them leaping on chairs and denouncing Mr. Moon as a fascist.

As security guards led them away, Mr. Moon, smiling broadly, thanked them for making the banquet “even more exciting” and asked the audience to “give them a big applause.”

Accused of Heresy

In both the Garden and the Waldorf ‐Astoria events, the church's New Hope Singers International and the Korean Folk Ballet performed. Members of each group smiled continuously during all selections. including a drum dance said to depict the inner struggle of penitent monk.

A group of Korean ministers, in a statement, accused Mr. Moon of teaching “a Christian heresy.” They described him as a “self‐ordained man who was ousted by the Presbyterian Church of Korea” and sentenced to jail for marrying woman while still married to his first wife.

They also say the English translation of Mr. Moon's “Divine Principle” omits, “conveniently,” a claim in the Korean version that Korean will be the language of a forthcoming one world “because the ‘Universal Father’ [Moon] is Korean.”

The 40‐member interdenominational group, cailed the Korean Ministers Association of Greater New York, has been active here in opposing what it terms the dictatorship in South Korea. A spokesman said the group received threatening phone calls from Moon followers for opposing his movement.

Spokesmen for the Unification Church have denied making threats. They say Korean Christians in particular have spread “vicious” rumors because they oppose the Unification Church.

The 55‐year‐old Korean evangelist, who is regarded as the Messiah by most of his follow ers, spoke emphatically in Korean. At times he shouted hoarsely, pointed his finger or even jumped with clenched fists as he talked about Adam and Eve and Jesus Christ and said God had told him to bring his message to America.

His chief associate, Col. Bo Hi Pak, translated with force but with less intensity. Both men mopped their foreheads during the talk as they stood behind the double lectern on the red‐carpeted stage.

The Garden was filled to capacity minutes after the doors opened, but half an hour after ‘Mr. Moon began speaking, steady trickle of people began leaving. By the time the twohour talk ended the amphitheater was barely half full.

Leaflet Waver Ejected

Mr. Moon was interrupted at the start of his talk when he invited “those who oppose me” to “do it now.” Several people in the hall shouted, and a man in a suit and tie waving a leaflet was escorted out by the police.

The shouted words could not be understood. Demonstrators outside the Garden had handed out leaflets for various causes. Lefist groups accnsed Mr. Moon of being fascist. Fundamentalist groups said he falsely asserted he was a Christian.

After the initial interruption Mr. Moon, smiling broadly, said that, after all the excitement, he would like to sing. In a low voice with a rapid and close vibrato, he sang a slow Korean song, hands in the pants pocket, of his dark blue business suit, very much at ease.

His demeanor contrasted with the intensity of his later remarks. Much of them focused on his interpretation of the fall of man—that Satan “subjugated” [seduced] Eve, who then subjugated Adam, spoiling what he said was God's plan to have them marry, raise perfect children and perpetuate the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

Although Mr. Moon never said explicitly that he was the Messiah, he said “the time of the second coming is near, and “He may not return as you expect Him to return.”

A select audience including ‘diplomats and businessmen got a kind of preview of tonight's program Tuesday night at banquet given by Mr. Moon at the Waldorf ‐Astoria Hdtel. They also got a preview of the demonstrations, when pickets ‘distributed leaflets outside the hotel and briefly interrupted

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